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This book is excellent. It highlights the terrible problem of immigrants who, to save their own lives, must enter countries where they are not wanted, where they are abused, where they have no hope, where they are often irreparably harmed, and from which they are sent back home to their deaths. The story points out that there are many ways that humans hurt each other, often not just physically, and that attempts to make things right sometimes succeed and sometimes do not. This is an outstanding
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Interesting book told from two different points of view, both women. I often do not like to read books written by men who try to do this. But I must say, the author did not fall into the usual tired cliches and that was nice. For the most part, the female voices were ok but there was just something that did not fit though. If I took some time to ponder what it was, I might be able to articulate it but it is not worth the effort. The male characters were shallow and not well developed. I thought
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If she'd said "in Africa" one more time.....Bored middle class Mommy goes to Nigeria--NIGERIA--for a holiday and it changes her life.Her only child needs therapy and a Mommy who can say "no." Then there's the whole "in Africa" thing. If he'd said it one more time, I'd have thrown the book away. Instead, I don't regret finishing it. It tells a very necessary tale--the tale of what it IS like to be a woman on the outside of a very dangerous society and the tale of the illegal immigrant needing--no
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I really wanted to like this book. I found myself bored and hoping for more throughout the story. The last third of the book, it finally got interesting... And then, just ended.
Jan 03, 2013
Meghan
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